Each emoji – taken from Apple, Windows, Android, and WeChat platforms – represented one of the six emotional states labelled by the team: happy, disgusted, fearful, sad, surprised, and angry.

Plans to introduce a "frowning pile of poo" emoji have been flushed from the latest proposals by the group in charge of creating the symbols. The symbol was floated as one of many to be introduced ...

They found that the older the participant, the less their interpretations matched the labels for surprised, fearful, sad, and angry emojis. Women’s interpretations of happy, fearful, sad ...